acpivout(4)

acpivout4

Acpi video output

Usage

acpivout* at acpivideo?

Overview

The acpivout driver supports brightness adjustment. It allows brightness to be adjusted either using a brightness hotkey or the wsconsctl(8) variable “display.brightness”.

Releases

36 releases since OpenBSD 4.6; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.6
  2. 4.7–5.3
  3. 5.4–6.6
  4. 6.7–8.0

History

The acpivout driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.6.

Authors

The acpivout driver was written by Paul Irofti ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.